Slate’s Amicus podcast with Dahlia Lithwick: Nice Little FBI You’ve Got Here. Pity if Something Happened to It. Informative discussion of the ins and outs of what constitutes obstruction of justice and how that kind of case could be built here with Stanford Law School professor Robert Weisberg. The second part of the podcast is also a very interesting discussion of the legal weight of Trump’s tweets, specifically his tweets about the travel ban.

Slate’s Trumpcast: Oh Lordy Jim Comey! Jamelle Bouie talks to the Washington Post’s Greg Sargent about the testimony and what might possibly be going on in elected Republicans’s heads and what it might take for them to take action on Trump.

Between the Lines of Jim Comey’s Testimony: “..Moreover, as a former FBI agent, I know the importance of reading between the lines; and in this case, a great deal went unsaid both about the ongoing investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election, and the peril the president himself could face…”

Comey’s Testimony Was Ratings Gold, Even at 10 A.M. “..Roughly 19.5 million Americans tuned in on Thursday to watch James B. Comey, the former F.B.I. director, unspool the tale of his awkward, unsettling and, at times, ethically questionable encounters with President Trump. That is about the same number of people who watched Game 2 of this week’s N.B.A. finals between the Golden State Warriors and the Cleveland Cavaliers..”

New guidance from the British Home Office callously says that gay Afghan asylum seekers can be deportedback home, where homosexuality is illegal, and pretend to be straight.

German firms turn to the US and UK when laws in Germany block them from exporting weapons to conflict-affected countries.

Leaked court documents show evidence that the 2016 assassination of Honduran environmental activist Berta Cáceres was an extrajudicial killing carried out by military intelligence specialists linked to the country’s US–trained special forces.

Trump’s latest moves to publish lists of crimes committed by undocumented immigrants is drawing comparison to Hitler’s lists of crimes committed by Jews.

Two years ago, Lt. Gen. H.R. McMaster, the new national security advisor, was investigated by the Army and admonished for allowing two lieutenants to attend Ranger School even though they were under criminal investigation for sexual assault.

The massive law enforcement presence at Standing Rock was basically a multimillion dollar protection force for Energy Transfer Partners, at the expense of North Dakota’s taxpayers (and with serious physical cost to some of the bodies of those protesting the pipeline).